Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:07:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en EileenFavoritehttp://feedburner.google.com Collaborative Poem http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/Iv29d4Idypk/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2009/04/�y%/collaborative-poem/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:07:52 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2009/04/�y%/collaborative-poem/ Here’s a link to a epistolary poem written by seven poets, including myself, who have been meeting off and on for the last couple of years.

http://qarrtsiluni.com/tag/dear-seven/

]]> http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2009/04/�y%/collaborative-poem/feed/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2009/04/�y%/collaborative-poem/ Poets and Writers Magazine–quotes I forgot I made! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/DGNyeObctCo/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2009/01/�y%/poets-and-writers-magazine-quotes-i-forgot-i-made-2/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:37:37 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2009/01/11/poets-and-writers-magazine-quotes-i-forgot-i-made-2/ How cool!  I ran into the journalist Kevin Nance at a party tonight, and he told me he ran my quotes about genre bending in Poets & Writers last September.  Oops!  Let my subscription lapse!  Here’s the link: http://www.pw.org/content/invasion_genre_snatchers

]]> http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2009/01/�y%/poets-and-writers-magazine-quotes-i-forgot-i-made-2/feed/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2009/01/�y%/poets-and-writers-magazine-quotes-i-forgot-i-made-2/ Russian rights to The Heroines sold to Exmo Publishers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/NLvDRvAEbWY/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/12/�y%/russian-rights-to-the-heroines-sold-to-exmo-publishers/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:43:01 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/12/18/russian-rights-to-the-heroines-sold-to-exmo-publishers/ I had some fun news on Monday that the Russians have bought the rights to my novel. Long live the Rushkies!

]]> http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/12/�y%/russian-rights-to-the-heroines-sold-to-exmo-publishers/feed/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/12/�y%/russian-rights-to-the-heroines-sold-to-exmo-publishers/ Buy Books this Christmas! Patronize your local stores! Tell them to Stock The Heroines! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/GUgwE1H7eXY/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/12/�y%/buy-books-this-christmas-patronize-your-local-stores-tell-them-to-stock-the-heroines/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:55:42 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/12/11/buy-books-this-christmas-patronize-your-local-stores-tell-them-to-stock-the-heroines/ Here’s a message from Roy Blount, Jr., President of the Author’s Guild.

“I’ve been talking to booksellers lately who report that times are hard. And local booksellers aren’t known for vast reserves of capital, so a serious dip in sales can be devastating. Booksellers don’t lose enough money, however, to receive congressional attention. A government bailout isn’t in the cards.

We don’t want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods. So let’s mount a book-buying splurge. Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party. Buy the rest of your Christmas presents, but that’s just for starters. Clear out the mysteries, wrap up the histories, beam up the science fiction! Round up the westerns, go crazy for self-help, say yes to the university press books! Get a load of those coffee-table books, fatten up on slim volumes of verse, and take a chance on romance!

There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they’re easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.  Stockpile children’s books as gifts for friends who look like they may eventually give birth. Hold off on the flat-screen TV and the GPS (they’ll be cheaper after Christmas) and buy many, many books. Then tell the grateful booksellers, who by this time will be hanging onto your legs begging you to stay and live with their cat in the stockroom: “Got to move on, folks. Got some books to write now. You see…we’re the Authors Guild.”

Enjoy the holidays.

Roy Blount Jr.
President
Authors Guild

]]> http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/12/�y%/buy-books-this-christmas-patronize-your-local-stores-tell-them-to-stock-the-heroines/feed/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/12/�y%/buy-books-this-christmas-patronize-your-local-stores-tell-them-to-stock-the-heroines/ Paperback cover for the Heroines…Weigh in, my friends http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/kuvDf1RzsfI/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/11/�y%/paperback-cover-for-the-heroinesweigh-in-my-friends/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:23:28 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/11/21/paperback-cover-for-the-heroinesweigh-in-my-friends/ Here’s what should be the new cover, paperback due to be released in February 2009.  Get the hardcovers while they last!!!The Heroines paperback

]]> http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/11/�y%/paperback-cover-for-the-heroinesweigh-in-my-friends/feed/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/11/�y%/paperback-cover-for-the-heroinesweigh-in-my-friends/ Haruki Marukami on Creativity http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/ZuJ9b3YFy8E/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/10/�y%/haruki-marukami-on-creativity/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:11:13 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/10/07/haruki-marukami-on-creativity/ Haruki Marukami, the wonderful Japanese writer, said this at the New Yorker Festival, and I think it’s a wonderful point to have made in this age of snarky bloggers and unedited rants both on the Web and in print.

1. Criticizing somebody is fun and easy.

2. Meanwhile, creating something original is very hard.

3. But somebody’s got to do it.

]]> http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/10/�y%/haruki-marukami-on-creativity/feed/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/10/�y%/haruki-marukami-on-creativity/ Shame on you, Ms. Favorite. Who do you think you’re emailing? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/7oXykyDeFFM/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/�y%/shame-on-you-ms-favorite-who-do-you-think-youre-emailing/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:50:19 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/22/shame-on-you-ms-favorite-who-do-you-think-youre-emailing/ Recently, I’ve (inadvertently) sent some pro-Obama and anti-Pallin e-mails to pro-McCain people.  My bad!  I can understand that it annoys people (who have let me know), but is this an issue of free speech or bad form?  In other words, should I be keeping my beliefs quiet, should I be more polite?  Is this bad marketing to say I support Obama?  Nice girls don’t ruffle feathers?  Am I only supposed to engage with people that agree with me?  I really appreciated that Len weighed in on the Swanborn death notice issue with the Tribune. Len is a Republican, but he still believed that censoring and disallowing first-amendment rights is wrong.

By the same token, I’m annoyed with the people who attack Pallin for being a working mother.  How she chooses to conduct her family life is her decision.   I’m sure she juggles responsibilities with her husband, daughters, and whomever else she must hire to make the house go.

]]> http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/�y%/shame-on-you-ms-favorite-who-do-you-think-youre-emailing/feed/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/�y%/shame-on-you-ms-favorite-who-do-you-think-youre-emailing/ The Swanborn Family Will Have Their Words Re-instated by the Chicago Tribune http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/ROVMUP7ET_Y/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/�y%/the-swanborn-family-will-have-their-words-re-instated-by-the-chicago-tribune/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:13:03 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/11/the-swanborn-family-will-have-their-words-re-instated-by-the-chicago-tribune/ I just received notice from Ken Swanborn’s widow, Janet,  that the Tribune will reprint his death notice this Sunday with the line, “In lieu of flowers, vote democratic” reinstated.    Ellen Glassberg of the Tribune said that she regretted the error, and Janet Swanborn graciously accepted her apology. 

 The Huffington Post also picked up the story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/chicago-tribune-rejects-v_n_125351.html

]]> http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/�y%/the-swanborn-family-will-have-their-words-re-instated-by-the-chicago-tribune/feed/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/�y%/the-swanborn-family-will-have-their-words-re-instated-by-the-chicago-tribune/ Censoring Death Notices, The Chicago Tribune http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/5JiyKHJt1Ro/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/�y%/obituaries-shouldnt-be-censored-chicago-tribune/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:49:51 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/08/obituaries-shouldnt-be-censored-chicago-tribune/ A friend’s brother passed away last week, Ken Swanborn.  While at the wake yesterday, the deceased’s sister told me how they wrote this line in the obituary:

“In lieu of flowers,  vote Democratic.” 

Somebody at the Chicago Tribune  called  and said they couldn’t print that.  Since Ken Swanborn was a canvasser for Obama and a stand-up comic, his wife thought this would be the perfect one-liner to honor her husband. 

 I’d be interested to know if others think what the Tribune did was correct or outrageous.  I’m not sure what the standards are for death notices, but I’d love to hear others’ thoughts. 

]]> http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/�y%/obituaries-shouldnt-be-censored-chicago-tribune/feed/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/09/�y%/obituaries-shouldnt-be-censored-chicago-tribune/ Dateline France–July 10–The price of eggs and oysters http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EileenFavorite/~3/1k__Sq_LJIU/ http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/07/�y%/dateline-france-july-10-the-price-of-eggs-and-oysters/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:21:25 +0000 Eileen Favorite http://www.eileenfavorite.com/blog/2008/07/10/dateline-france-july-10-the-price-of-eggs-and-oysters/ I’m in Belle-Ile-en-mer France at the moment, and I had to share this surprising fact.
At today’s rate of exchange (1€ = $1.57) we paid €3.80 euros (approx $5.99) for 6 organic eggs ($1 per egg). We also paid 3€ (appox. $4.71) for 6 oysters (.78 cents per oyster). Eggs cost more than oysters? Does this mean that eggs will become an item de luxe? Should we be eating one boiled egg as a delicacy in a silver egg cup? Will the eating of eggs become the habit of connoiseurs only?

Granted, I’m staying in a region of the Atlantic, the Bay of Byscay, which has some of the biggest oyster beds in the world.

And some of you may detest oysters.

But what a scary example of the global food crisis…

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